{"id":10912,"date":"2023-03-20T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=10912"},"modified":"2025-04-30T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T14:20:34","slug":"fantastic-beasts-student-produced-video-features-philosophy-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/20\/fantastic-beasts-student-produced-video-features-philosophy-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fantastic Beasts\u2019: Student-produced video features philosophy professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Griffon University | Fantastic Beasts and How to Categorize Them\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lvfM8w1klPQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March 20, 2023&#8211;Students in Missouri Western State University\u2019s Griffon Production House have released their latest \u201cGriffon University\u201d video, spotlighting the research of a Missouri Western faculty member.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGriffon University\u2019s mission is to highlight student and faculty research and provide engaging content to a wider audience, letting them see what we do at Missouri Western,\u201d said Thomas Brecheisen, assistant professor of cinema and director of Griffon Production House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last fall, Dr. James Okapal, professor of philosophy, published \u201cFantastic Beasts and How to Categorize Them\u201d on The Prindle Post, a digital publication of the Prindle Institute for Ethics at Depauw University in Indiana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the article, Dr. Okapal explores and critiques the moral framework behind the distinction between \u201cbeasts\u201d and \u201cbeings\u201d in the J.K. Rowling book, \u201cFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.\u201d The video features Dr. Okapal talking about his article and graphics created by digital animation students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The short film was created by:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Content director: Rebecca Evans, junior performing and cinema arts major from St. Joseph<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Script supervisor: Blake Elder, sophomore performing and cinema arts major from Lathrop, Missouri<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Editor: Brecheisen<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graphics: Digital animation majors Dana Vinson, sophomore of Roland, Iowa; Andrew Holcomb, senior of Bartlesville, Oklahoma; RJ Cousins, sophomore of St. Louis, Missouri; and Lexi DeLapp, junior of Blue Springs, Missouri<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film is available on YouTube at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lvfM8w1klPQ\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">youtu.be\/lvfM8w1klPQ<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; March 20, 2023&#8211;Students in Missouri Western State University\u2019s Griffon Production House have released their latest \u201cGriffon University\u201d video, spotlighting the research of a Missouri Western faculty member. \u201cGriffon University\u2019s mission is to highlight student and faculty research and provide engaging content to a wider audience, letting them see what we do at Missouri Western,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,49,1791,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11845,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10912\/revisions\/11845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}